Anu-Laura Tuttelberg

Anu-Laura Tuttelberg graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2013 with an MA degree in Animation. She specialises in stop-motion animation. Her graduation film Fly Mill screened at numerous festivals around the world and won 20 prizes. Her first film after graduation On The Other Side Of The Woods premiered in June 2014 at Annecy International Animation Festival, has screened at more than 85 festivals and won over 12 awards. Winter in the Rainforest – the first film from the trilogy of stop-motion films with porcelain characters – premiered in 2019 at Annecy, has screened at more than 90 festivals, and won 13 awards.
Anu-Laura has also created set designs for numerous stop-motion films by other directors. In 2022 she won the Estonian Film and TV Award for Best Production Design for Til We Meet Again, directed by Ülo Pikkov. Anu-Laura teaches animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
On Weary Wings Go By is the second film in Anu-Laura’s nature trilogy shot outdoors in various locations in the world with porcelain puppets as characters.

Filmography

Fly Mill / Kärbeste veski (2012, short animation)

On The Other Side Of The Woods / Teisel pool metsa (2014, short animation)

Winter in the Rainforest / Talv Vihmametsas / Žiema atogrąžų miške (2019, short animation)

On Weary Wings Go By / Kai išskrenda paukščiai (2024, short animation)